Word: rockingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YOUR OWN THING. Shakespeare again proves himself to be a most congenial coauthor, as Twelfth Night provides the plot and cast of characters for an inventive rock musical about confusion of the sexes...
...reaction to the electronic acid rock so much in vogue nowadays, many pop artists have started to simplify their sound, and are discovering the roots of their musical heritage in the process. Some have only returned to the beginnings of hard rock in the 1950s, while others have made the longer journey back to Nashville and country-western music. The Lovin' Spoonful got there first with a song called Nashville Cats. Bob Dylan followed with his famed John Wesley Harding album. And now several groups are on the trail...
...three days and three nights, through intermittent downpours, the musicians held the first Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Fair. The music was incessant, loud, wild and swinging-folk rock, just plain folk, acid rock, cool jazz, blues, country and Western. There were tents pitched in Betty's muddy meadow, but nobody did much sleeping. The first night, everybody stayed up listening to the music until 2:30 a.m., then watched a psychedelic light show and underground movies. The next night, they never went to bed at all. With the morning came a "Sun Dance." The musicians...
Garner and Reynolds desperately try to carry on in the tradition of the Rock Hudson-Doris Day sex farces of the '50s. But they are swiftly undone by shameless mugging, slow-running gags and hurried slapstick. This is the kind of comedy that calls for gales of canned laughter on television-which is really the only kind that canned comedy deserves...
...toward the vortex of popular success. His 1966 novel, Beautiful Losers, a hallucinogenic potion of Iroquois history and art-as-psychosis, has a sizable readership among college students and literate dropouts. Cohen has been documented on an educational television film and interviewed on CBS. His recent move into folk-rock composing and singing has not gone unnoticed either. His song Suzanne, a sweetly eerie and rather self-conscious effort to be both sublimely sacred and sublimely profane, has been recorded by a number of modern minnesingers. His dark brand of sentimentality has enough youth appeal so that the Smothers Brothers...